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When WGN America dropped local sports from its programming this season, it ended nearly four decades of beaming Cubs baseball to far-flung places across the country. Distant viewers can still watch the Cubs through paid service online or on cable or satellite TV. But for displaced fans within the team's designated "home" turf — an expansive region that includes Illinois, Iowa and Indiana — it's hit or miss because of MLB broadcast rules dating to the rabbit-ears era. While streaming and cable or satellite packages can deliver every Cubs game, almost anywhere, they are considered out of market platforms prohibited within the team's home television...

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